America's Unique Deaf Stories; Established 1996; 22nd year

2014/09/29

Starbucks is starting a new series of commercials.One such commerical involves a deaf activity insidea Starbucks store in Hawaii. It involves an isolateddeaf woman, discovering a deaf meeting place inStarbucks and then making new deaf friends. Why isthis interesting – because a group of deaf peoplefiled a lawsuit, accusing Starbucks of discrimination!

— a $12.00 hearing aid

A shopper in North Carolina went to the Harbor Freight Tools, a hardware store, to look for some stuff to buy. He mentioned that the store sells $12.00 hearing aids! True? DeafDigest does not believe it and thinks the shopper confused a cheap listening device for a real hearing aid! Hardware store dealers are not audiologists.

— T-Mobile customer service people block the deaf

A deaf person, with his T-Mobile, wanted to text thecustomer service department. He wanted to add some new features for his device. The response from T-Mobile was this – we hope that you enjoy email and internet with your T-Mobile phone. But when the deaf person tried to discuss adding new features, the response was still the same. Where is this happening? Not in USA, but in Great Britain! A British deaf activist said T-Mobile has areputation for cutting off deaf people.